The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-24
Facts About the Big Woman Who Has
Married the Little Scotch Millionaire.
The Latter Is Said to Look and Act Like a
Gentleman, but the objectionable Sin of
lngratitude Is Charged Against Him.
Sensational Lawsuit Likely to Result
from the Death of Eliza Weathersby.
How Carrier Pigeons Are Trained for Their
Message. Carrying Work = Bleeding New
York'S Poor in the Matter of Funerals.
THE CARNEGIE WEDDING.

Miss Whitfield's Good Match-The One Sin
Charged Against Her Husband.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
NEW YORK, April 23.-Mss Whitfield has
made what the world calls good match. She
has IN arried the hard-head little Scotchman,
Andrew Carnegie, the millionaire ten times
over. Miss Whitfield is comely woman over
thirty years old. In stature she is giant COM
pared with her husband. Her father wasa we'll
known merchant on Broadway. She affects the
Universalist Church, is cultivated, and in addi-
ton to what means she has in her own right
possesses the snug little of $50 600, left to
her by dead doctor named Blumenthal The
marriage is said to be for love, although the
average woman in the matrimonial way must
find it pretty hard thing to refuse millionaire,
let alone man who has made some pretersions
to authorship by writing "A Fourth hand
Through Great Britain" Voyage Round the
World and Triumphant Democracy besides
numerous articles contributed to the maya
zines Mr. Carnegie has also been very liberal
with his cash, and has endowed libraries and
numerous charitable institutions with large
amounts. His fame is worldwide as the great
American iron-master and proprietor of num-
Der of provincial English newspapers. The
details Of his career in this country are pretty
well known. How he left Scotland when ten
years of age: how his mother swept the Offices of
the Pennsylvania railroad in Pittsburg; how he
became an errand boy, and how the late Tom
Scott took fancy to him and made him q tele
graph operator. Afterwards, how he turned his
attention to oil and iron, and accumulated huge
fortune. Mr.. Carnegie acts and looks like a gen.
tleman. He has his weaknesses. however, and
the grave charge of the blacklist ingratitude has
been brought against him with apparent truth.
One of his foibles ia the desire to link his name
with great and distinguished men. whose favor
and good will he has succeeded in securing in
many instances. What Mr.. Gladstone said to
Carnegie; how Carnegie entertained Matthew
Arnold; what Mr.. Arnold thought of Carnegie;
what points Col. Robert Ingersoll differed
from Carnegie the kind OF headlines he
loves to see in the newspapers. itmakes Carne
gle little bigger man and it does not hurt the
other fellow. One of the most striking
illustrations of the millonaire's peculiarities
in this respect is in his acquaintanceship with
Black, the novelist. "The Strange Adventures
of a Phaeton" suggested to Carnegie the driving
of a four-inhand through England. Unless
there is special bond Of fellowship or
sympathy it is difficult to understand how the
clever Scotch novelist could become the bosom
friend of the man who has been engaged all his
life making money through the medium OF Goa,
and iron. The obvious conclusion is that Mr.
Carnegie has the faculty of buying his way
perhaps not with actual dollars and cents-into
the friendship and confidence of prominent peo-
pie As to the charge of ingratitude, it is stated
on very good authority that Mr. earn egie, who
owed his good fortune to Tom Scott was the
only man who refused to assist his benefactor in
the hour of need During the railroad riots of
1878 Scott was in sore financial straits. He
wrote to all his moneyed friends for help
Carnegie was the only one who did not respond
Yet, withal, Mr.. Carnegie is very nice and
agreeable man. B. B. VALENTINE.